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Contents Zoom In Zoom Out For navigation instructions please click here Search Issue Next Page TROUT UNLIMITED • WWW.TU.ORG_________________ • WINTER 2010 The Upper Green: An Ecosystem on the Brink Restoring Hope for Brookies in Virginia Fishing in the Name of Science $3 US / $4 CANADA PRINTED IN THE U.S.A Contents Zoom In Zoom Out For navigation instructions please click here Search Issue Next Page A Previous Page Contents Zoom In Zoom Out Front Cover Search Issue Next Page BEF MaGS THE TROUT AND SALMONID COLLECTION at Montana State University ontana State University Libraries in Bozeman, MMontana has embraced the challenge of becoming the world’s preeminent center for trout information by building an extraordinary Trout and Salmonid Collection. Composed of thousands of titles ranging from sixteenth century scientific works to modern angling, the collection offers unparalleled resources for scholars, researchers, students and interested anglers worldwide. To enhance public understanding, a unique Trout Lecture series will bring the expertise of scholars and researchers to the trout community as well as the general public. These lectures are designed to promote fisheries education and trout conservation. The lecture series will further expand the reach of the MSU Trout Initiative. To support the Trout and Salmonid Collection and lecture series, contributions may be made to: The MSU Foundation c/o MSU Libraries’ Bud Lilly Chair in Trout & Salmonid Bibliography PO Box 173320 Bozeman, MT 59717-3320 “The Montana State University Library provides an opportunity that is rare in this world: to read some of the finest things ever written about fish and fishing and apply it to the total experience.” — BUD LILLY For more information, contact Patricia Denison at 406-994-3119, [email protected] or visit www.lib.montana.edu/trout. A Previous Page Contents Zoom In Zoom Out Front Cover Search Issue Next Page BEF MaGS A Previous Page Contents Zoom In Zoom Out Front Cover Search Issue Next Page BEF MaGS _________ A Previous Page Contents Zoom In Zoom Out Front Cover Search Issue Next Page BEF MaGS A Previous Page Contents Zoom In Zoom Out Front Cover Search Issue Next Page BEF MaGS The Journal of Coldwater Fisheries Conservation www.tu.org WINTER 2010 16 l The Call When the call comes, we are always there to fish with our fellow anglers. BY CHRISTOPHER CAMUTO 18 l An Ecosystem on the Brink Fish and wildlife in the Upper Green River watershed face innumerable threats, but TU is there to take on the challenges. BY RANDY SCHOLFIELD 28 l Fishing in the Name of Science Volunteers use fly rods to help with fisheries research in Yellowstone National Park. BY BRETT PRETTYMAN 34 l The Survivor The Bonneville cutthroat’s comeback, in pictures and words. 36 l Voices from the River Wild steelhead’s fall and rise in Lake Superior. BY MICHAEL FURTMAN 40 l Restoring Hope for Virginia’s Brook Trout The Home Rivers Initiative takes on the Upper Shenandoah. BY DAVID HART 5 l From the President 6 l From the Editor 7 l Our Contributors 8 l Our Readers Write 10 l Pocket Water Nestlé backs out of McCloud River water bottling plan. Chemicals used in fracing show up in Wyoming water wells. Washington Rivers Conservancy merges with TU. Departments 15 l Question and Answer With the Fly Fishing Rabbi, Eric Eisenkramer. 45 l Actionline Grassroots Spotlight: Rio Grande cutts restored to Comanche Creek. Fiftieth Anniversary National Conservation Awards. Bull trout return to the Upper Willamette. Oregon coastal coho salmon and coastal cutthroat enjoy restored habitat on the Necanicum River. 56 The Art of Angling l Trout profiles: Apache trout. BY DAVE WHITLOCK 64 Native Fish l Yellowstone cutthroat trout. BY DR. ROBERT BEHNKE MARK LANCE A Previous Page Contents Zoom In Zoom Out Front Cover Search Issue Next Page BEF MaGS A Previous Page Contents Zoom In Zoom Out Front Cover Search Issue Next Page BEF MaGS A Previous Page Contents Zoom In Zoom Out Front Cover Search Issue Next Page BEF MaGS A Previous Page Contents Zoom In Zoom Out Front Cover Search Issue Next Page BEF MaGS Trout Unlimited Board of Trustees Chairman of the Board National Leadership Council Oakleigh Thorne, MILLBROOK, NEW YORK Representatives State Council Chairs Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees, ARIZONA, Fred Fillmore ARIZONA, Jeff Collins Chairman of the ARKANSAS, Ray Smith ARKANSAS, Ray Smith National Leadership Council CALIFORNIA, Jamie Hunter CALIFORNIA, Drew Irby John “Duke” Welter, EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN COLORADO, Tom Krol COLORADO, Ken Neubecker CONNECTICUT, Ted Gardziel CONNECTICUT, Jim Glowienka President GEORGIA, Larry Vigil GEORGIA, Charlie Breithaupt Charles F. Gauvin, ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA IDAHO, Todd Carter IDAHO, Carmen Northen ILLINOIS, Greg Prosen ILLINOIS, Ed Michael Secretary IOWA, Brett Lorenzen IOWA, Gary Arner Mark T. Gates, PALO ALTO , CALIFORNIA KENTUCKY, Dale White KENTUCKY, Bill Remaks MAINE, Bill Oleszczuk MAINE, Dan Daly Treasurer MASSACHUSETTS/RHODE ISLAND, Mark Hattman MASSACHUSETTS/RHODE ISLAND, Peter Schilling Harris Hyman IV, WASHINGTON, DC MICHIGAN, Pat Kochanny MICHIGAN, Kimberly Wetton MID-ATLANTIC, Bruce Eberle MID-ATLANTIC, Allan Dale Secretary of the National Leadership Council MINNESOTA, Bob Lange MINNESOTA, John Lenczewski Larry Harris, MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA MISSOURI, Curt Morgret MISSOURI, John Wenzlick MONTANA, Tom Anacker MONTANA, Doug Nation Legal Advisor NEW HAMPSHIRE, Adam Bronstein NEW HAMPSHIRE, Burr Tupper David Armstrong, Esq., NEW JERSEY, Rich Thomas NEW JERSEY, Rick Axt GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA NEW MEXICO, Jason Sides NEW MEXICO, Bill Schudlich NEW YORK, Dee Maciejewski NEW YORK, Ron Urban James K. Asselstine, New York, NY NORTH CAROLINA, Tim Willhelm NORTH CAROLINA, Dave Maeda Sherry Brainerd, Rancho Santa Fe, CA OHIO, Thomas Allen OHIO, Jim Augustyn Jon Christiansen, Milwaukee, WI OKLAHOMA, Scott Hood OKLAHOMA, Jeff Hartman OREGON, Karl Mueller OREGON, Tom Wolf Matt Clifford, San Francisco, CA PENNSYLVANIA, Jack Williams PENNSYLVANIA, David Rothrock Charles Conn, Ketchum, ID SOUTH CAROLINA, Tom McInnis SOUTH CAROLINA, Meta Armstrong Paul Doscher, Concord, NH TENNESSEE, Steve Brown TENNESSEE, George Lane Bill Egan, Jackson, WY TEXAS, Jeff Schmitt TEXAS, Greg Neubauer Lawrence Finch, Wilson, WY UTAH, Brock Richardson UTAH, Robert Dibblee VERMONT, Chris Moore VERMONT, Chris Moore David Goeddel, Ph.D., Hillsborough, CA VIRGINIA, Tom Sadler VIRGINIA, John Ross Wallace Henderson, New York, NY WASHINGTON, Mark Taylor WASHINGTON, Bill Abrahamse Patsy Ishiyama, San Francisco, CA WEST VIRGINIA, Larry Harris WEST VIRGINIA, Chris Shockey George Jenkins, St. Davids, PA WISCONSIN, Daniel Wisniewski WISCONSIN, Bill Heart Eaddo Kiernan, Greenwich, CT WYOMING, John Deakins WYOMING, Dave Sweet Sharon Lance, Centennial, CO Paul Maciejewski, Elma, NY Coldwater Conservation Fund Nancy Mackinnon, Manchester Center, VT Chair Directors Perk Perkins Mick McCorcle, Fairview, TX Theodore Roosevelt, IV Gay Barclay Richard Reagan Sanjeev Mehra, Greenwich, CT John Bell Leigh Seippel Vice Chair Rick Murphree, Knoxville, TN Phil Belling Thomas Stoddard Hamilton E. James Kirkwood Otey, Charlotte, NC Allan E. Bulley, Jr. Robert E. Strawbridge III Timothy C. Collins Robert J. Teufel George J. Records, Oklahoma City, OK Secretary James F. Kelley Michael De Vlaming Flinn Whitney Tilt Kevin Reilly, Santa Fe, NM Jim Eden Paul Vahldiek Theodore Roosevelt, IV, Brooklyn, NY Ex-Officio Steven Gewirz Henry Wendt Mike Slater, Kalkaska, MI Charles F. Gauvin John B. Howard, Esq. George A. Wiegers Steve Strandberg, San Francisco, CA Oakleigh Thorne David P. Hunt Duke Welter Charles M. Johnson Director Emeritus Elizabeth Storer, Tucson, AZ John McCosker, PhD. Margaret D. Keller Mark Ullman, New Canaan, CT Stephen T. Moss Thomas W. Offutt, III Edmond Opler, Jr. J. Steven Renkert _________________ ________________ ________________________ TROUT WINTER 2010 4 A Previous Page Contents Zoom In Zoom Out Front Cover Search Issue Next Page BEF MaGS A Previous Page Contents Zoom In Zoom Out Front Cover Search Issue Next Page BEF MaGS From the President WINTER 2010 • VOLUME 52 • NUMBER 1 [ Charles F. Gauvin] EDITOR Steven R. Kinsella ASSOCIATE EDITOR Hannah Moulton Belec Trout Unlimited Fishing in the Mainstream 1300 North 17th Street Suite 500 Arlington, VA 22209-3801 With the close of TU’s 50th anniversary year, it’s worth reflecting on how much the Ph: (703) 522-0200 organization’s mission has become entwined with some of today’s biggest issues. Back Fax: (703) 284-9400 [email protected]_______ in 1959, trout fishing was still a rarified affair. Quality fishing depended a lot on man- www.tu.org agement practices (to stock or not to stock; to limit one’s catch or not), and fishing was DESIGN about getting away from the cares of an increasingly urbanized way of life–retreating to grayHouse design [email protected] places where the water remained cold, and abundant for the most part. TU’s found- DISPLAY ADVERTISING ers were visionary because they reached beyond management issues to habitat, thereby Hannah Moulton Belec connecting the sportsman’s world with the surrounding biosphere. [email protected]_________ TROUT UNLIMITED’S MISSION: Today, many of our coldwater fisheries are on an environmental knife-edge. To conserve, Fishery management considerations can seem detached, even a bit quaint, in com- protect and parison to the challenges that energy development and climate change pose for trout restore North America’s and salmon and their watersheds. I say that not to devalue fishery management, but coldwater fish- to remind us of the larger dimension in which the TU conservation model—to protect eries and their intact headwater habitats, to reconnect them to mainstem river reaches that we restore, watersheds. and to build the human infrastructure required to sustain the entire enterprise—must now function. Trout (ISSN 0041-3364) is published four times a year in Consider two discrete examples involving states in which TU’s founders and their January, April, July, and October apostles invested themselves in replicating the success of their pioneering efforts in by Trout Unlimited as a service to its members.
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